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Moving on

Chris de Burgh, the man responsible for Lady in Red, has been refused planning permission to create a new two-storey home for his children in Dalkey. The saccharine balladeer applied for permission earlier this year to bulldoze Tempe Villa, an 1830s cottage he owns on upmarket Rockfort Avenue, and replace it with a contemporary family home.

De Burgh claimed that the neglected cottage was in disrepair when he bought it in 1988 and that its condition has since deteriorated. The diminutive crooner hoped that Rosanna Davison, his beauty queen daughter, could share the newly constructed pile with her two teenage brothers. Planning officials found that although the building wasn’t a protected structure, it was still of some architectural significance.

Ger Loughnane, the hurling supremo-turned-pundit, is looking for new home ground. The charismatic Clareman has decided to offload his family home in the Coill Mhara development on the outskirts of Shannon.